in the sea-language, a term of various import. When the wind blows not so hard but that a ship may carry her top-falls a-trip (that is, hoisted up to the highest), then they say it is a loom-gale. When it blows very strong, they say it is a stiff, strong, or fresh gale. When two ships are near one another at sea, and, there being but little wind blowing, one of them finds more of it than the other, they say that the one ship gales away from the other.

(Dr John), an eminent and learned minister among the Baptists, was born at London in 1680. He studied at Leyden, where he distinguished himself very early, and afterwards at Amsterdam, under Dr Limborch. He was chosen minister of the Baptist congregation at Barbican; where his preaching, being chiefly practical, was greatly resorted to by people of all persuasions. Four volumes of his sermons were published after his death, which happened in 1721. His Reflections on Dr Wall's History of Infant-baptism, is the best defence of the Baptists ever published, and the reading of that performance induced the learned Mr William Whiston and Dr Foster to become Baptists.

(Theophilus), an eminent nonconformist minister, born in 1628. He was invited to Winchester in 1657; and continued a stated preacher there until the re-establishment of the church by Charles II., when he rather chose to suffer the penalties of the act of conformity, than to submit to it contrary to his conscience. He was afterwards engaged by Philip lord Wharton as tutor to his sons, whom he attended to an academy at Caen in Normandy; and when this duty was fulfilled, he became pastor over a congregation of private conventiclers in Holborn. He died in 1678; and is principally known by an elaborate work, intitled, the Court of the Gentiles, calculated to show, that the Pagan philosophers derived their most sublime sentiments from the Scriptures.

(Dr Thomas), a learned divine, born at Scruton in Yorkshire, in the year 1636, was educated at Cambridge, and at length became professor of the Greek language in that university. He was afterwards chosen head master of St Paul's school, London; and was employed by the city in writing those elegant inscriptions on the monument erected in memory of the consecration in 1666. In 1676 he was collated to a prebend in the cathedral of St Paul's; and was likewise elected a fellow of the Royal Society, to which he presented a Roman urn with its ashes. About the year 1697, he gave to the new library of Trinity college, in Cambridge, a great number of Arabic manuscripts; and in 1697 was admitted dean of York. He died in that city in 1702; and was interred in the cathedral, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory. He was a learned divine, a great historian, one of the best Greek scholars of his age, and maintained a correspondence with the most learned men abroad as well as at home. He published,

1. Historia Poetica Antiqui Scriptores, octavo. 2. Opuscula Mythologica, Ethica, & Physica, in Greek and Latin, octavo. 3. Herodotii Historia, folio. 4. Historiae Anglicane Scriptores quinque, in folio. 5. Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicæ, Anglo-Danicae, Scriptores quindecim, in folio. 6. Rhetores Selecti, &c.